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Some time ago the good folks behind my favorite media player Audacious decided to abandon in-built support for Last.FM submissions.

The reasoning behind this seems to be that the Last.FM API was becoming a little too much to maintain which I suppose is fair enough in its quest to remain just a music player i.e. not a screen-hogging iTunes clone like so many others.

Heres how to put Last.FM support back into Audacity.

I’m going to assume you are a sensible person and using a Debian based system rather than Fedora. If you are one of these hat loving deviants, substitute ‘yum’ for apt-get below and feel free to voyage though the countless pains required to get Yum to actually do its job.

Installing LastFMSubmitD

I’m not sure on the capitalization of the daemon process LastFMSubmitD so that might be the wrong name entirely.

OPTIONAL – Set up the HTTP_PROXY

For some reason the daemon does not get proxy details right. This is easily fixed by opening /etc/init.d/lastfmsubmitd in your favorite editor and inserting the following line somewhere near the top (I put it after the ‘GROUP=’ line which should be the last bit of the daemon config area).
If you have no idea what a proxy is or why you should be doing this you can probably skip this section.